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I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sound
by NormenNomen 6y ago
I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sounds exactly like uncritically re-spewing the bullshit of these employers.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoSuppose that Uber is allowed to exist as a "second job" for the people who need it for that, or who otherwise need greater flexibility or other advantages that they can't get from a company when working as an employee. If the people you know don't actually want or need those advantages, why are they doing that job instead of working at Walmart or a gas station or a hundred other jobs where you are an employee?
- NormenNomen 6y agoUber does exist as a second job. The people deserve protections just as much as with their first job. It ain't a fuckin hobby like you're implying or you wouldn't get paid at all. It's honestly disgusting. The term "contractor" is just a regression, in true American fashion, to disguising abuse of labor as both necessary and progressive. There is no benefit to the term if it does not implying a mutually arrived at negotiated payment—do you really think that slavery would be any less heinous with a "flexible schedule"? It's fucking disgusting and makes me deeply ashamed to be associated with the tech community. Americans have never needed to read "Black Reconstruction" more.